This is why, even as a very indie Kickstarter creator myself, I don't begrudge the big studio's use of Kickstarter this way. I'd rather see a shift toward crea

This is why, even as a very indie Kickstarter creator myself, I don't begrudge the big studio's use of Kickstarter this way. I'd rather see a shift toward creators getting paid for the work they do, which they put in one way or another, and away from absolute dependence on the market for post-hoc validation. Not a 100% shift ("real artists ship"), but toward an economic model that doesn't leave creators so beholden to such narrow sources of capital as a single publisher.